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留一手
liú​yī​shǒu

hold back

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
留一手 liú​yī​shǒu
hold back
to deliberately withhold essential knowledge or skills as strategic insurance (typically to maintain leverage, avoid being replaced, or preserve authority in hierarchical relationships)

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.180 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.435 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)